Under increasing political pressure applied
by the Enterprise Mission and the Art Bell radio program in the last few
weeks, Malin
Space Science Systems director Michael Malin suddenly "found,"
and then unceremoniously dumped, eight new images of the region on his
web site last week. Malin's website claims the images were taken between
July 4th, 1999 and February 17th of this year. The timing of this sudden
data dump is curious, to say the least. Malin had given no indication
that any such release was being planned, and in fact had been conspicuously
silent on any future imaging of the region since the initial Science Phasing
Orbit images taken in April, 1998. This new release, coming on the heels
of Dan Goldin's rough questioning at the hands of Senator (and Presidential
candidate) John McCain
of Arizona and Goldin's subsequent public admission that JPL is overseen
by a committee led by former NSA
and DIA honcho Bobby
Inman, seemed calculated to relieve the public pressure put on the
agency in recent weeks. Rocked by allegations reported by former NASA
chief debunker and current UPI reporter James
Oberg that JPL had covered up problems with the Mars Polar Lander
and
that it knew the spacecraft was doomed, Goldin took a lot of heat
during his recent congressional testimony from McCain. McCain, obviously
motivated by a fax campaign started by Hoagland and Bell, suggested that
NASA seemed to be less than forthcoming on a variety of issues and needed
greater oversight from his committee.

Clearly, this new image release was cynically
designed to curry favor with congressional critics and reinforce the idea that
NASA is open and honest. But, by proving what we here at Enterprise have
asserted all along -- that Malin had far more images of the region than he had
released -- it in fact shows that the system of public accountability has all
but broken down at JPL, and that the database now being foisted upon us after
months (at least) of sequester must be regarded as compromised, at best. This
escalating series of unsettling events – beginning in the last year with the
shocking loss of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, --
have only added sad new confirmations to the pattern of deception and skullduggery that has
been in place around this subject for more than a decade.

We originally began looking at potential wrong doing by
"certain elements" in NASA at the time of the dramatic sudden
disappearance, in 1993, of JPL’s Mars
Observer Spacecraft. That was the first new NASA attempt to follow
the successful 1976 Viking Missions back to Mars with a new spacecraft
… and, many Americans hoped, would ultimately result in new images of
Cydonia itself.

After Mars Observers sudden "loss," we documented
our own, highly suspicious findings surrounding this sudden "convenient"
disappearance. These appeared in Hoagland's two-decade chronicle of the
on-going mysteries surrounding Cydonia, "The
Monuments of Mars." An official, supposedly "independent
study" of the Mars Observer fiasco (from NASA), conducted by the
Naval Research Laboratory, came up with its own "probable
scenario" for what happened to the missing spacecraft – an "explosion
… in deep space."

But, since the telemetry from the spacecraft was deliberately
turned off just prior to its critical "Mars orbit insertion,"
this conclusion was in essence "just an educated guess" by the
NRL Investigating Panel. There was simply no data to actually analyze
regarding any details of the "disappearance!"

A striking repeat to this critical "lack of any final
telemetry" was
again documented in the case of the recent Mars Polar Lander (MPL)
debacle; for the sake of a mere five million dollars (on a 165-million-dollar
spacecraft!), there was supposedly no radio telemetry system on board
which would have allowed engineers to monitor the spacecraft through the
critical entry and landing phase. So (exactly like the previous
experience of Mars Observer!), there was – again -- literally NO DATA
for the "Young MPL Review Panel" to analyze regarding what actually
happened to this spacecraft.

Like the earlier Navy study, their final conclusions regarding
what may have happened to MPL had to be based on another "probable
scenario" …

Coming on the heels of the stunning
revelation two weeks ago, by none other than the NASA Administrator
himself, of the apparent long-term involvement of the Nation’s intelligence
community (though Admiral "Bobby" Inman) in JPL’s civilian
space affairs, one can only wonder anew at this strange (and extraordinarily
convenient) "series of coincidences." For, further investigation
has revealed that Admiral Inman (among his other titles, former Director
of the super-secret NSA, and Naval Intelligence as well …) does
indeed preside (as Chairman) over a "JPL Committee" at
Cal Tech. He has been there, according to a Cal Tech spokesman, for "…
at least eight years" -- in other words, since just before
Mars Observer disappeared!

Amid these revelations, as well as recent rumors of actual
"NSA missions to deep space …" (!), the last line of Oberg’s
original March 21st NASA
story " contained a most intriguing "typo":

"According to Lori Garver, NASA's
associate administrator for plans, the report on NSA's [!!??] failures
will be reviewed internally and then will be sent to the White House
before being released to the public."

To say now that these developments are significant
"new support" for our long-held contention -- that all
these spacecraft may have been quietly "taken black" because
they were approaching Mars -- would be something of a major understatement

…

Which brings us to Michael Malin’s sudden new release of
previously unknown "Cydonia"
images … quietly acquired (we are also casually informed) over the
past year … without any public knowledge …

This, of course, immediately presents us with a couple of
very fundamental questions:

First: why were these images acquired surreptitiously
(clearly, no one outside of Dr. Malin’s imaging facility was informed
they were being taken at the time!)? Second: why were they then held,
with no public notification (even after they had been successfully
acquired), for as long as a full year? And third: are we
to seriously believe that, with fifteen separate orbital opportunities to re-image Cydonia
in those two years, NOT ONE of those successfully secured a new image
of the Face itself?!

(On the latter: during a recent Bell Show, after discussing the
new Cydonia images, I received a call from a known DIA agent -- claiming
that "Malin has indeed taken new Face images, but he and Goldin
will never release those .." In view of the fact that Admiral
Inman was also a former Vice-director of the DIA, this phone call
rang a bell …RCH)

So, what’s seriously wrong with this whole political
picture?

To answer that, we must go back two years before this current
series of events, when there were major scientific debates and heated
public discussions attempting to insure the highly public re-imaging
by Mars Surveyor of this specific, highly controversial region of the
planet. And Dr. Michael Malin, as a contract employee of JPL (and NASA!),
was clearly included in the eventual agreement that was reached.

These efforts involved both "The Society for Planetary
SETI" (SPSR), which sought and achieved a private scientific meeting
at NASA Headquarters with key NASA officials to that end, as well as our
own – "Enterprise" – political activities. These latter
efforts focused on a highly visible campaign to bring much needed public
input to the problem (through Art Bell’s audience of millions …).

In March, 1998, after receiving literally tens of thousands
of faxes from that highly involved audience, demanding that NASA
take new photos of the region after over twenty years, NASA finally "caved":
in a prominent agreement, later posted on the official JPL
Website, the Mars Surveyor Project agreed to "announce these
[Cydonia] imaging opportunities in advance …" and then "[shortly
after receipt] to post the resultant images on the Internet."
According to the specific terms of this agreement:

"… we [the Mars Surveyor Project] expect
that there will be widespread scientific and public interest in
the new results from Mars. As such, there is a strong commitment
by NASA and the MGS scientists to release data to the public on
a timely basis. The project will be releasing data shortlyafter receipt on the Internet in a manner similar to that
seen on the Clementine, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, and Mars
Pathfinder missions.

"The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft
is only able to photograph features on the surface of Mars that
are directly below it as it makes each orbital pass. The spacecraft
will fly directly over the Cydonia region, where enigmatic features
were observed in the Viking mission, a few times during its mapping
mission.

The Mars Global Surveyor project
will announce these imaging opportunities in advance and will
post the resultant images on the Internet" [emphasis added]."

While this policy deliberately understates the frequency of imaging
opportunities and reinforces the often repeated claim that the spacecraft
is difficult to aim, it does make it clear that these images should have
been released months ago with announcements in advance that the imaging
would take place.

It can immediately be seen that, by deliberately withholding
this latest Cydonia imagery -- in some cases (according to the data
tables published on Malin’s own Website), for up to a year
– Dr. Malin, as well as JPL, is in gross violation of this widely publicized
agreement. Further, by not notifying the press or public of impending
imaging opportunities, or promptly placing their results on the Internet
as per that previous agreement, both Malin (if not JPL and NASA)
have now unnecessarily – and, apparently, deliberately -- fanned
the flames of "conspiracy" around these images as well …

Why? Because the verifiable "chain of custody"
-- which was the prime purpose of the original agreement in the first
place -- has now been hopelessly compromised by Malin’s bizarre
actions. Especially, by his deliberate (and simply inexplicable) withholding
of the images themselves ...

Because of this baffling decision, serious new questions
regarding Dr. Malin’s scientific integrity – if not his willingness to
abide by NASA’s promised obligations to the public – certainly are raised.
Obviously neither a timely release nor a prior announcement took place
because the image released was forced, rather than planned, just
as the initial imaging was forced on Malin back in 1998.

At that time, as he had been for a number
of years, Malin was extremely dismissive of the images themselves and
the features they showed. In fact, at one time, Malin had placed an image
on his website supposedly depicting the "teeth" in the mouth
of the Face --

-- which in fact had an arrow pointing to a contrast artifact
created by Malin's deliberate overexposure of Viking frame 70A13. This
unfortunate episode of out-right debunkery was chronicled by Dr. Stanley
McDaniel in an article titled "Dr.
Malin's False Teeth," on the McDaniel Report web site. In fact,
Malin has a long history of hostility to the idea that there might be
anything artificial at Cydonia or for that matter anywhere else on Mars.

According to Vincent
Dipietro, during the "Case for Mars" conference at Boulder,
Colorado in 1981, Dipietro and his research partner Gregory Molenaar were
audibly assaulted by Dr. Malin. Malin had set up a display table near
to the one hosted by Dipietro and Molenaar, who were trying to generate
interest in the Face and their image enhancement process. Every time anyone
approached the table and started to look at the images of the Face, Malin
picked up a megaphone and began yelling into it, creating so much
noise that he was able to drive away many a curious conference-goer.

This open and unscientific hostility toward the idea of merely
investigating the Face and Cydonia continued through the Mars Observer program
and into the Mars Global Surveyor program. In a page on his web site, Malin made
his feelings plain in 1995 when he stated that;

"No one in the planetary science community (at least to my knowledge) would waste
their time doing "a scientific study" of the nature advocated by those who believe that the "Face on Mars"
(is) artificial."

This utterly biased, completely non-scientific (and indeed,
curiously un-curious) perspective even seeped into some interviews he did
before the arrival of Mars Global Surveyor at the Red Planet. "I won't
believe there's anything artificial down there until I see the lawn
furniture," he stated at the time. Even more, he went on to claim that the
spacecraft was extraordinarily difficult to point at a target as small as the
Face, and compared the chances of getting an unambiguous picture of it with the odds of
hitting the lottery.

It was clearly evident that Malin was adverse to the idea of
re-photographing Cydonia, at least in any public way, and that he was not likely
to release any images he did obtain if he changed his mind. However, thanks to a
fax and e-mail campaign generated by Richard Hoagland and Art Bell, Malin was
subsequently forced to release an image of the Face that was taken on April 5th,
1998, during the Science Phasing Orbit period. At that time, the MGS was passing
over the Cydonia region every nine days and did so for nearly four months, providing
ample opportunity to image the Face and other anomalies. Contrary to his
previous claims about "hitting the lottery," Malin was able to nail
the Face dead center in the image on his first "official" attempt.
Subsequent opportunities provided images of the "City." Another image
of the "City," covering essentially the same territory as the April,
1998 images was released in 1999.

That initial image was of course the infamous "catbox"
version of the Face. It was deliberately degraded, having both a "high
pass" and "low pass" filter applied to it, effectively
eliminating most of the detail. The picture was also taken under the absolute
worst possible lighting conditions and from a low oblique perspective, badly
distorting the Face after rectification and giving the illusion of asymmetry
(the platform of the Face in fact has subsequently been shown to be 98%
symmetrical).

In spite of the poor viewing angle and lighting conditions, the new image
provided startling confirmation of many of the characteristics that were originally suggestive of artificial ancestry. But
this first released version of that image, the one intended for public consumption,
was a mess. Even if you possessed the skill and background to be able to manipulate the image to some degree of recognition, you would be hard pressed to evaluate the resulting data as
anything but a random muddle of sand -- hence, the "catbox" label.

This was not what the researchers or the public had expected to see. But it was clearly what JPL and MSSS wanted the media to show them. Within a few hours of the release of an
image that they surely knew was far below the quality of what could be
obtained from the raw data, JPL spinmeisters had spread out to the various news media pronouncing the Face to be natural. They did this with
all the authority and clout of JPL and NASA behind them, but none of the responsibility. By pronouncing that neither JPL or NASA would take a position on the image, both entities
draped themselves in a fallacious robe of objectivity.

At the same time, these spinmeisters - employees of JPL mostly - insisted that even though they were NASA scientists (and by
implication smarter than most of us) they were not speaking for NASA or JPL but only for themselves. This is a continuation of the "plausible deniability" in place at NASA since the early '90's.

The end result of this was to insulate NASA and JPL from direct criticism on the matter. Any of their employees subsequently found to have made false statements or unscientific arguments
over this issue could be dismissed as "loose cannon's" who acted outside the purview of their responsibilities at the agency. This means that there can never be a second "McDaniel Report",
proving NASA's complicity in a campaign of misinformation and ridicule of a scientifically testable hypothesis. At the same time NASA can claim that it acted openly and honestly by
releasing data quickly and allowing it's scientists to comment on the matter.

In spite of this spin program worthy of the best minds in the Clinton White House, this would have all gone for naught if just one thing had happened differently.

If the better version of the image had been released in time for the evening news.

This second, vastly superior version of the "raw" data appeared - again without comment - on the various NASA, MSSS and JPL web and mirror
sites literally just minutes after the last of the network news programs went
off the air. It
had far more visible detail and confirmed many Face-like features -- including
clearly unmistakable nostrils in the nose, of all things -- but it came too late. Only after the major news organizations had broadcast their reports and made their pronouncements did this considerably
improved, much more obviously Face-like image miraculously come to light.

But, oddly, there were features "missing" as
well.

In both of the original Viking images (35A72 and 70A13) there
were fine but obvious structures in the mouth which seemed to represent
teeth. One of the key tests for the artificiality of the Face has centered
around this issue. In fact, it's hard to imagine a more decisive test
of artificiality then the representation of teeth in the mouth. Dr. Malin
apparently realized this as well, because he made a special effort to
debunk the presence of teeth in the Viking data by placing fake images
of the "teeth" on his website (see above). He also went well
out of his way to misrepresent the arguments made by the researchers advocating
the presence of "Teeth".

One of the first contentions made against the presence of
actual teeth was the claim that they were merely artifacts of the image
enhancement process. The problem with this argument is that it lacks any
logical basis. The possibility that a tooth-like set of image artifacts
could appear on two very different images, taken 35 days apart at different
sun angles, yet in precisely the same location, are non-existent. It is
even less likely when you consider that there are no other appearances
of teeth-like "artifacts" anywhere else in either image and
the features are well beyond the range of any individual data errors.
It is also noticeable that the West end of the mouth had an unmistakable
closure in the corner which is missing from the supposedly "better"
MGS image. Finally, the two images are oriented at differing perspectives
relative to the pixel grids. In spite of this, Malin and others have persisted
in their mischaracterization of the issue.

Obviously, the teeth were one of the key areas of interest
in the event that new images of the Face should be obtained. When they
were, we were not really surprised to see nothing resembling the teeth
anywhere in the mouth area. Given the two day embargo period that the
image had been held by MSSS and Malin's clear motives for hiding anything
supporting the Artificiality Hypothesis, it was about what we expected.

Still, it was flatly impossible that this was a genuine, unaltered
image. Since it had been categorically shown that they were not imaging
artifacts, the "Teeth" could only be actual features on the
Face itself. Even if we were inclined to cave into the view that the missing
teeth must have been a trick of light and shadow after all, a "Trick
of Light and Shadow" can only have produced the teeth under a specific
set of circumstances. Namely, there must an object or set of objects to
throw such a shadow in the first place. Since no such objects
are visible in the new data, the assertion, or merely even the suggestion
that shadows could explain the features in the Viking data is insupportable
and insipid. Consequently, since the Viking data establishes without doubt
that the teeth (or some objects capable of creating the illusion of teeth)
must be there, the only reasonable conclusion is that the Teeth
are there, we just can't see them for some reason.

The case of the missing teeth was only the beginning of
the problems with the Face image, however.

As Richard Hoagland pointed out
back in April, 1998, the image of the Face only contained about 50% of
the data it should have. There was a combination of factors accounting
for this, ranging from a very narrow contrast band set on the orbiter
camera to the fact that the resolution on the image was deliberately cut
in half, supposedly to increase the width of the image strip and assist
the targeting of the Face.

Curiously, Malin himself (along with JPL) have admitted that this image
was "de-resed." In response to the report posted by Richard
Hoagland, Malin and JPL jointly posted an explanation indicating they
reduced the resolution of the image by 50%. Their argument was essentially
that due to navigational uncertainties, they had to expand the camera's
field of view along the downtrack to be certain of hitting the Face. The
problem with this is that the downtrack, the viewing angle back along
the orbital path, is by far the easier to calibrate of the two orbital
considerations. Even the crosstrack, the location of the width portion
of the strip (and the far more difficult of the two tracks to calibrate
and predict) has an error margin of some .15 miles, or just 1/8 the width
of the Face. McDaniel, in his report declared:

(Hitting a target at Cydonia is) "about as difficult ... as hitting a door with a
baseball from a distance of about 1 foot".

It is also notable that this explanation was presented only
after Hoagland posted his piece and went on the Art Bell program decrying
what had been done. One wonders when just when Dr. Malin would have deigned
to inform us of his modification of the camera settings if Hoagland hadn't
caught him at it.

What this, and other information we obtained at the time,
added up to was a definite conclusion that the Face and City images were
not genuine or had been altered. Given that these images were only held
for a period of a few days, what then are we to conclude about
these new images that have been held in secret for many months? What
could someone like Malin -- so steadfastly committed to obfuscation of
these issues that he was willing to yell into a megaphone at a scientific
conference -- do to images he held for so long?

The reasons for these questions are quite simple: besides
his past history of obfuscation on Cydonia, Mailin, in various scientific
meetings over the past two years as well as in a recent published piece
in Smithsonian Magazine (September ’99), has gone to great lengths to
describe the "terrible arm twisting by NASA Headquarters" that
ultimately forced him "against his better scientific instincts"
to acquire the three original MGS Cydonia images in April, 1998. In these
public protestations, he also vowed (because it was "simply awful
science") to "never do it again" – despite what NASA had
agreed to!

This, despite the fact that none other than Dan Goldin himself
(head of the same NASA that Dr. Malin works for …) promised all Americans,
through his old friend CNN science correspondent John Holliman (shortly
before John’s tragic death):

So, despite Dan Goldin’s public promise, and despite his
deputy Carl Pilcher’s posted
agreement with the MGS Project, for Malin the "arm twisting"
apparently "just went away." After April 1998, no one at Headquarters
(certainly NOT Dan Goldin!) apparently followed up on the Cydonia Agreement.
No one in authority over Malin (our own efforts and those of SPSR notwithstanding)
during the course of these two years, apparently ever asked Dr.
Malin "Are you still taking Cydonia images pursuant to our commitment
with the public? And, if so, where are they ..?"

Even Dr. Mark Carlotto, a member of SPSR (and, at the time,
one of those who briefed at the original NASA Headquarters meeting) --
obviously thinking of the terms of that important original NASA commitment
regarding public notification and timely release of new
images from all Cydonia "fly overs" -- stated
as late as last July (1999):

"Given the widespread interest in Cydonia (mostly
from outside of the planetary geology community), it seems reasonable
to assume that the lack of new data released means that no new
data has been collected.
That MGS will be resuming off-nadir observations of Mars increases
significantly the probability of successfully re-imaging the Cydonia
targets."

So, the main question is very simple: if there was NO continued
pressure on Malin from "inside" (NASA Headquarters) to continue
taking Cydonia images … and there was NO "scientific reason to do
so" (Malin’s own words) …

Why did he quietly, surreptitiously, keep taking images!!??

And … if there was nothing "anomalous" on them
… why didn’t he release them immediately -- if for no other reason,
thanto silence all his critics once and for all??!!

While publicly claiming that he had no scientific interest in
Cydonia, it turns out that Malin has been secretly imaging the hell out
of the region with great frequency. According to Peter
Nerburn, there have been 15 imaging opportunities since MGS went into
the mapping phase, and nine images have been released. One of these was
a supposed second attempt to get an image of the Face that went awry when
MGS suddenly went into "safe" mode. Unfortunately, none of the
other seven new images are of the Face, even though the spacecraft could
have been rotated to point at the Face and capture another oblique image.

This begs the obvious question; "What about the other six
imaging opportunities?" Are we really to believe that Malin, who is
obviously a bald faced liar when he feigns no interest in Cydonia (Cydonia is
now by far the most photographed region of Mars, at least as far as publicly
released images go), if he claims that the just didn't take the pictures? How
plausible is it that just skipped six opportunities while in the midst of his
Cydonia photography binge?

Clearly, it is not plausible at all.

And let's not forget the Science Phasing Orbit opportunities
between October 1997 and May 1998, when MGS was passing over Cydonia every
nine days, creating several dozen chances to take images of Cydonia. JPL
scientists have told both Vincent Dipietro and Whitley Strieber in the last two
years that Malin had been taking so many pictures of the Face that they could
not get time on the MGS for their own research! If this is true, and Malin's
obviously overwhelming interest in Cydonia makes certain that it is, where are
these images? And even more, if these images (as a for-instance) clearly showed
the Face to be natural, why would he not release them immediately? After all, if
they supported his public contention that "this is all nonsense," he
could have ended the debate long ago by simply putting out the images of these
supposedly "natural" features.

The fact that he did not, that he held them from public view and
failed to notify that same public in advance when imaging opportunities were
coming up, shows that he at least was far less confident in his public stance vis-ŕ-vis
Cydonia than he let on. In fact, it presents a logical dilemma for those that
insist there is nothing conspiratorial going on at NASA/JPL/MSSS at all. Because, the only reason for Malin withholding any images
of Cydonia for any length of time is if they did not support his
view that the Face and surrounding objects are entirely natural! If, in fact,
they showed just the opposite!

These extraordinary -- and directly contradictory statements/actions
-- should make any reasonable person at this point pause and simply ask:

"Just what the hell is going on!?"

In light of these "obviously inconsistent Malin actions
(to use a legal term)," the recent revelation – by Dan Goldin himself!
-- that "the most celebrated intelligence agent" of this Nation
has been in charge of a specific "JPL Committee" for
over eight years … that, in turn, is in ultimate charge of all Mars
imaging … should now make such a "reasonable person" pause
a long, long time … For remember, the backdrop to this whole charade is
"Brookings": an official NASA Report
which warned that serious evidence of extraterrestrial life … or even
ruins … could "destroy all of civilization."

This being the case: in terms of using any of
the data in these latest MGS images for ascertaining "the presence
or absence of artificial structures at Cydonia," there can be only
one logical conclusion: because of the unconscionable delay, these images
are legally worthless for such purposes!!

It is time … actually, well past time … for a thorough Congressional
Review of NASA’s actions in this and other matters. Fortunately, there
now appears to be a congressional "watchdog" worthy of this
crucial task and, more important, apparently seriouslywilling
to consider it: Senator John McCain.

In recent Senate hearings regarding the loss of Mars Orbiter and
Polar Lander, Senator McCain made this important and revealing statement:

"If the media reports are true -- that NASA
withheld critical information from the public and elected
officials -- then the trust that is vital between this government
and its citizens has been violated and warrants a very serious
examination of how this agency operates …[emphasis added]."

During House hearings on the NASA failures, held last week
in Washington, some additional suspicious facts came to light. According
to congressional sources, the Young Review Panel (as well as JPL’s inside
investigation) did not interview ANY of the staff, management or scientists
at NASA Headquarters, regarding the two failed spacecraft. According to
a story in USA Today,

This remarkable "oversight" is, unfortunately,
totally consistent with our own theory on the "losses" – that
NASA Headquarters quietly encouraged (through "better, faster, cheaper"),
then turned a "deaf ear" to JPL’s management excesses, so that
ultimately the inevitable failures would allow a "mainstream excuse"
to return management of key Mars missionsto NASA Headquarters itself. This was also the reason (in our model)
for Goldin’s sudden, highly irregular disclosure of Admiral Inman’s long-term
role in overseeing JPL’s "civilian" space activities …

It reminds one all too much of that highly controversial new movie
-- "The Skulls!"

The film depicts a secret network of "shadowy alliances
and life-long affiliations," established though college-inspired
memberships in and ritual practices used by key secret societies
… forever outside (and beyond) "ordinary" government and business
channels.

In its opening scene, the film solemnly informs the audience
that this is not "just fiction": that "three U.S.
Presidents have been members of this organization …" (a reference
to the acknowledged existence for over a hundred years at Yale University
of the mysterious "Skull and Bones Society"). In the film, one
member of the Society in question – an otherwise highly respected U.S.
Senator (the "good guy") – narrowly triumphs over his unscrupulous
rival for ultimate control and direction of the secret organization, in
"continuing to manage government affairs behinds the scenes …"

The echo with the recent example of "Goldin/ Inman"
should not be lost ...

By any measure -- considering the tumultuous and highly
suspicious NASA history of Cydonia, and the overriding importance of an honest data set to any
final determinations as to its ultimate artificiality -- Malin’s actions
easily fall under the category of "withhold[ing] critical information
from the public and elected officials …" And, for those who would
insist that "a NASA scientist would never alter data"
(after never withholding it!), what about Jim Oberg’s UPI
accusation (repeated on the Bell Show the other night) that
"an unnamed space official simply altered the conditions of the testing
until the engine passed ..."? And remember: Oberg was "one of
them," an engineer under contract to NASA for over twenty years.
What else did he see while he was there … to form the basis of
such a serious accusation ..?

Mr. Oberg is currently UPI’s "space writer," as
well as serving as a "space consultant" (much like Richard C.
Hoagland was at CBS) to ABC News. Hardly the "flake" he’s been
depicted as, in NASA’s "over-the-top" response to his very serious
accusation. But then, all of us who can cite specific circumstances of
NASA’s "less than forthright history of truth telling" have
at one time or another been tarred with the same brush …

It’s time to end such nonsense. And an open, complete, congressional
airing of all these major issues is just the forum. If you’re interested
in seeing such hearings, then by all means let Senator McCain know! His
direct Washington D.C. Senate office fax number is:

Be sure to remind him of Dan Goldin and NASA’s previous public
commitment "to release [all Cydonia] data to the public on
a timely basis … shortly after receipt on the Internet …"
And then also ask: "Senator, even in Washington, is one year
in any way considered ‘shortly?’" And finally: "Would not withholding
specific images of "the Face" (as certain "inside"
sources now have also charged) represent the ultimate in NASA’s
long documented violation of the public trust?! When, Senator, is ‘enough
… enough??!!’"

On the new images themselves: we shall have much more to
say about these in another, future article. Suffice it to note: after
our still very preliminary examination (see the Enterprise Website),
there DO appear to be some additional, remarkable, and definitely inexplicable
non-geological "anomalies" on these new images as well.
In particular: our initial discovery of another "ruined tetrahedron"
at Cydonia – this one forming the ruined apex of
"the Tholus" itself! A still-discernable structure which,
once again, exquisitely reinforces our previous "geometric relationship
model" for the entire Cydonia Complex.

Yet still, there are many discrepancies between this new Cydonia
data and that recorded by Viking, when the game was (presumably) somewhat
more "honest." These new images contain more of the mysterious
"fuzzy spots," which conveniently seem to appear around areas
that might be considered to be entrance points to potentially artificial
structures. And even more curiously, these fuzzy spots seem to be confined
exclusively to the Cydonia MGS images ...

If, as we suspect, "something" could have been done
to these new images in the year that they’ve been "lying in a drawer"
in Malin’s office, how (some might well reasonably ask) can we simultaneously
report "serious new evidence of artificiality" on those same
images?

Because, nothing in this "game" is linear … And,
while perfectly capable of removing blatant evidence of any "smoking
guns" (such as the missing "teeth") on such images (especially,
given one year with no one watching, and access to the Nation’s
best supercomputers!), the now "outed" intelligence agencies
(not "NASA") we now know (thanks to Goldin) are behind this
whole charade are not above leaving "just enough evidence" to
keep the game "interesting" … (Remember the kind of mentality
that becomes an "intelligence agent" in the first place!)

It is our presumption, that in this "Year of Disclosure,"
we are being fed more timed released aspirin. Just enough evidence to
keep the hypothesis advancing, but not enough to put it over the top in
the minds of the general public and media. Our job now is to keep the
kind of political pressure on that has given us these new images in spite
of the desire of Malin and NASA to continue hiding them.